This refers to those of us born in the 60s and 70s during Vietnam and
the end of the Cold War. We're right after the Baby Boomers and right
before "Generation Y" or "the Millenium Generation".

Wikipedia has an interesting article on us: 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_X

deb - Gen Xer and I don't really know what that means other than we
wore neon and jelly shoes in the 80s :)

On 8/27/05, Lois Brynes <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I cannot recall WHICH gen. gener-Xers are. Can someone please help? (This is
> a real question.)
> 
> It must be all those sweeping generations. Or did you mean sweeping
> generals?
> Oh, I get it, sleeping generations. I do recall those.
> 
> Lois
> 
> 
> 
> On Aug 27, 2005, at 5:26 AM, Robyne Miles wrote:
> 
> 
> As it can be seen that there are many talented, dedicated Gen X-ers in our
> 
> profession. Rather than defending my generation, I'd just like to say to Ms.
> 
> Smedstad that her comment "In my experience of the last ten years, I have
> 
> come to the conclusion that this is what I call "Gen X arrogance" is a
> 
> generational thing" reflects very poorly on her, and subsequently her
> 
> organization. Sweeping generalizations regarding entire generations are both
> 
> inappropriate and short-sighted.  I hope in the future she would think twice
> 
> about posting such biased comments in a public forum of her peers.
> 
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